MY LIFE MY CHOICE

MY LIFE MY CHOICE

There comes a time in a man’s life when he/she would have to take a decision, nothing describes our character more than the choice we make, our choice is determined by our character. It is so important because it’s like a compass which directs the course of our destiny and the outcome our live today, is as a result of the choice we took yesterday. A huge number of youth are being influence in making the wrong choice which is the cause of the high rate of immorality in our society and it is unfortunate that we have little or no role model in our society, our politicians encourages corruption, men of God preaches prosperity without hard work and the music and movie industry is not helping the matter. If the youth will not know why they should and stand for what is right, when it comes to making choice, I will say that the future of the “leaders of tomorrow” looks blink and its outcome of this in the nearest future will be more deadly than the bombing of the Boko Haram.

However, Joshua 24:15 says “choose you today who you will serve……” we come across this type of question on a daily bases and the type of answer we give will determine our stand and at what direction we are going, in a situation where by, during Sunday mass, a large number of youth will prefer to stay outside the church jesting even when there are space inside, what kind of choice do you think they have taken?. Life gives us option to choose from (Prov 14:12), that is to say that the choice to serve God is not a probability but a necessity (john15:5) and this is the foundation of our character as the leaders of tomorrow because in life, this is the first decision we as individual will have to make.

Thus, every choice comes with responsibility, there is no easy way to success apart from hard work, however most of us fail to understand that, “one is only poor only when he choose to be” and because most of us want a short cut process, that is why the rate of prostitution, rubbery, cultism etc is at its peak. It is not making choice that is the problem but carrying the responsibility attached, is what matters. To study Mechanical Engineering is a choice but to study hard is the responsibility.

I have come to know that a large number of catholic youth are been misled when it comes to making the right choice and this is because a large number of our youth are “Nominal Catholics”, these set of people believe in God but they have a shallow knowledge about the things of God and that of the catholic doctrine, they believe in coming to Sunday mass alone. Once you don’t know your right as a child of God, the devil will take advantage of you and that is why so many are addicted to different thing (Drugs, porn, sex etc). Coming to Sunday mass is not all but joining a society that will help build our live spiritually and be free from the slavery of the devil as in Gal 4:5-6.

Nevertheless, our culture is also contributing or affecting our choice as youth. Some of our culture don’t believe in the girl child education, they believe that the duty of a girl child is to marry and make children, some believe in early marriage for their children while some believe that the father should be the one to make decision for his children, this is the reason why so many youth are studying course or learning trade out of their will. Just because a father loves a particular profession does not mean that his children must practice it. The government on the other hand has also contributed to this menace because in all our public school, there are no guardian and counseling unit , whose role is to counsel the young once on how to take decision and not to talk of our private schools, this is a big problem.

In summary, we live in a society where the rate of moral decadence is so high, where the educational standard has fallen, where there are little or no role model and in a society where unemployment rat is so high and someone will say “why will one not be misguided”, but the bible says, “that we are in the world but not of the world”. It is “your choice and our life”, whatsoever decision you will take, you shall give account of it Ecc11:9. Also Ecc7:1 says, “a good name is better than precious ointment. The kind of choice we take will determine how far we can go in life. To leave a healthy life is a choice, to be successful is a choice, to leave a good legacy is also a choice and we the youth must make the right once because the dignity of our family, the church and the society at large is at stake. It is your life and your choice, so do the right thing.